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a Murderer GuIllotlned

PARIS, Aug. 31.-Pranzina, the muir
derer of Nine. Ragnault, her maid, and
her maids child was guillotined at 5
o'clock this morning. He made no con-
fession. Vast crows waited about the
place of execution during the whole of
the night and kept up constant howl
ing and yelling. The din was horrible.
When the chaplain who was to officiate
at the execution arrived at 4:30 a. m.
the mass of people was so great that he
was almost prevented from reaching
the prison. Pranzina marched from his
cell to the scaffoid with firm step and
defiant air. When the executioners
seized him the murderer resisted and
fought desperately, demanding that
they let him alone. The executioners
overpowered him and threw him upon
the machine and in an instant had him
securely bound. Immediately the ter
rible knife was started. 1t descended
with horrible slowness at first, but then
its movements quickened and the head
of the murderer rolled into the basket
The mob outside became very disorder
ly during the progress of the execution
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scored hInPoint.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29.-In the
application of the Pacific Railroad
Commissioners to compel Senator STAN
ford and other officers of the Central
Pacific Railroad to answer certain ques-
tions in regard to the expenditure of
funds to influence legislation, Justice
Field, of the United States Supreme
Court, delivered the opinion of the
United States Circuit Court to the eff
feet that the act of Congress creating
the Commission improperly invests the
cooperation of the courts in an inquiry
that is not judicial. The opinion is
based on decisions and opinions of
Storey, Marshall and TOusey upon the
limitations of Congressional authority,
and in effect voids that part of the act
referring to the courts, as unconstitu-
tional. The court therefore declines to
make an order compelling the officers
to answer questions, and also declines
to make an order giving the Commits
sion access to the books of the various
] companies.
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Sherman,s Gard.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 30.-The Com
mercial- Gazette prints the following
card to-day: Mansfield, Ohio, Aug.
%, 19S7.-To the Editor of the Com
mercial- Gazette: On my return home
| my attention is called to published
| telegram from Winnipeg, Manitoba,
giving views alleged to have been ex-
pressed by me on the fisheries question
to Senator Ogilvie, of the Dominion
Government, which / am told have
been extensively repiinted i'll the Uni
| ted States during my absence, in which
| it is alleged that i justified the action
| of the dominion government upon the
| fisheries question as perfectly with
in their rights and extremely
moderate. | wish most emphatically to
deny any such interview or as having
expressed to any one any such opinion.
l had a conversation with Senator
Ogilvie in the presence of a number of
gentlemen in which took exactly the
opposition. and that while the Canadian
government had legally right to ex-
clude American fisherman within the
three mile limit of their shore, it was
an act of bad policy TO do SO, and that
their denial to American fishermen of
the commercial rights to seek shelter
and buy bait and supplies in
Canadian ports was inconsistent
with the civilized and generous policy
of modern commercial nations, and that
hoped it would be promptly aban-
dOned, as the best preparation for more
intimate commercial relations between
the United States and the dominion
government. These views, in sub
stance, were published in the papers at
Winnipeg, and | feel quite sure that
Senator Ogilvie never authorized
the statement / have quoted / would
not consider this of sufficient import
ance to call for denial but for the fact
that it is Il subject matter of negotia-
tion between the two countries, and
such an utterance would not only be
contrary to my well-known opinions,
but in extremely bad taste. Very truly
yours, JOHN SHERMAN.
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Observation-Disclosures.

Dies MONIES, Iowa, Aug. 20.-The
Railroad Commissioners this morning
rendered decision in the Dubuque
case, a complaint of the Dubuque Board
of Trade in behalf of merchants, millers
and others. The complaint Iecited
that the Chicago, Milwaukee q ST.
Paul and the Illinois Central Railroads,
which have acquired most of the avail
able space in the city for side tracks,
refused to switch cars of the Burling-
ton, Cedar Rapids Il Northern and
Minnesota u Northwestern Roads,
which have just entered the city, to
mills and factories for unloading, if
they are to be used for freight to COM
peting points, and raised the switching
charge to 81 per car for freight to
nOn-competing points, thus practically
embargOing several branches of bust
ness. The commissioners say the QueS-
tion is, are the side-tracks of a railroad
subject to the same control as the main
line? And they hold that under sec
tion 1923 of the code all property used
for railroad purposes comes within the
law, whether it be a statiOn-house, side
tracks or any other instrumentality fol
hauling freight, and that under chapter
15S, laws of the Ninth General Assem-,
bly,, railroad companies are bound tC
receive all cars of connecting roads al
reasonable rates. A reasonable rate
for switching is 81 for one mile, 81 ST
for two miles, and 81 for three miles.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 3I.-Yesterday
Judge Donohue signed an order of ar
rest for Albert Meter, in suit against
him and his brother, to recover SIS, 600
and interest from December %, 1877
The claim foots up about $49, 600. Bail
was fixed at $50. 600. Meter was prac-
tically arrested yesterday afternoon,
but appears to have been left over night
in the hands of some one connected
with the sheriff's office, presumably to
search for bail, Meters counsel, ex-
Governor Hoadly, agreed to be respon-
sible for the production of his client to-
day. The action against Meter is
brought by members of the firm of Da-
Wis q Freeman, which has been sue
ceeded by +. p. Freeman 81 Co. The
order of arrest was procured upon the
| allegation that the Meters obtained
the money by false and fraudulent rep
| plaintiffs, which has been prepared
| by John r. Despassos, sets
| forth that the firm of Meter s. Co
represented to Davis s. Freeman, as IL
fact they did to q good many Other
people who borrowed money Of them
that they were engaged in loaninf
large sums of money for institution
and wealthy individuals which AMI
i who were willing to accept lower rat
of interest than the ruling rate, upoI
conditions that the collateral should b
first-class and that the margin between
!. the amount advanced on the seeuritie
and the market price should be wide
In this way Meter s. Co. obtaine
] possession of large amount of secu
rites which they were unable
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Par,ners Fatal Quarrel.

DENVER, Aug. SO.-A Republican
special from Santa Fe says that Albert
Meade of Iowa, who was interested
in the Las Lucas Milling s. Mining
Co., at Good Hope, became dissatisfied
with the way the affairs were being
managed and left. On Friday last he
returned to the camp to get some
papers he had left in the cabin, and
while there he got into an alteration
with his partners and he shot and
killed three of them, Joe Downing,
Harvey Meade and Mr.. Hands. Fred
Meade the only survivor, then rushed
on Albert, Wrested his Winchester
from him and then shot him through
the head. The coroner's jury acquitted
Fred Meade. Fred Meade was from
AledO. Illinois.
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From sin to GIo1x

ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. 3O.-While the
Salvation Army was being harangued
in the barracks last night, a young
trunk-maker named Louis Land gave
evidence of conviction. Suddenly the
report of pistol was heard, followed
by a gToan of anguish, and the young
convert was spread out on the floor
with pistol in his hand and blood
squirting out from an ugly wound III the
abdomen. The more generally accept
ed theory is that MI. Land, who has
been attending the barracks against
the will of his people, was greatly
wrought up, and had just decided TO
forsake his family and follow the blood
red banner. When conviction seized
him he was greatly moeed, and on step
ping aside with the color-bearer. he
said: "NOw that / have got religion,
l will die while am happy" With
that the shot was fired and the man
who thus sought to pass from sin to
glory fell to the floor bleeding.
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SEER ZOO MUCH OF 1T.
Bob Lincoln says the Presidential
Ofiics. Is. HUI IA sstIda.si E,risnn.

OG1fc ~ HUT a SEfIdSA k'E1s0n.
PITyTsBUKG, Aug. S1.-A special to
the Pittsburg Post from Toledo, Ohio
says the Toledo Blades Chicago CORES
pondent has interviewed Robert T.
Lincoln us to the use of his name on
the next republican national ticket.
Mr.. Lincoln says: | simply could not
accept the nomination TO a vice
presidency; to take any Office at all
would be IL great sacrifice of my bust
ness interests. / most certainly
should not accept the nomination for
the vice presidency were it rendered
AS to being a candidate for the preSi-
dency Mr.. Lincoln says:
II regret the use of my name in con-
nection with any public Office whatever.
1t seems difficult for the average
American to understand that it is
possible for any one not to desire the
presidency, but l most certainly do not
l have seen to much of it. / can well
remember the tremendous burden my
father was called upon to bear. / have
seen enough of it during my Washing
ton Official life to have lost all desire
for it. The presidential Office is but g
/ giided prison. Its cares and Worry
| outweigh the honor which surrOnds
the position. l don t think there is any
likelihood of my receiving the nomi.
nation. Tie men who make the ticket
would hardly do so without exactine
certain pledges and those pledges
would not giVe.''
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storms At Sea.

HALIFAX, N. s., Aug. 29.-The
pleasure steamer Mohican, Captain
Thompson, owned by the Clarks of
Paisley, Scotland, arrived here at u
o'clock last night from Clyde, after
a terrific passage of twelve days. They
encountered two fearful hurricanes
from the south, one last Monday and
the second on Friday. During the lat
ter she had q portion of her port bull
warks crushed in, lost her jib boom and
suffered other damage. At noon yes
terday the Mohican fell in with the
ship Lillian, of st. John, M Captain
Whitney, which had been rendered a
complete wreck during the previous
days storm. She was diSmantled and
waterlogged. Her bulwarkS were all
broken in or swept away, and every boat
on board had either been carried off or
crushed into atoms. The crew OF sew
enteen men, besides Captain Whitney's
wife and the stewardess, were clinging
to the helpless ship and signaled to the
Mohican that they wished to be taken
of. A fierce wind was blowing and a
high sea was running, but boat was
launched from the steamer and after
five hours perilOuS work the wrecked
crew was reached. The men and Wo-
men, one by one, had to Jump into the
water and then be pulled on board. and
the same experience was repeated in
transferring them from the boat to the
Mohican. The Lillian was abandoned
about three hundred miles east of Hal
flax. She was from Rotterdam, bound
to New York with cargo of empty
oil casks. She had been out ten
days at the time of the disaster. The
Mohican'S party are bound to New
York for the special purpose of witness
ing the race for Americas cup. Those
on board are John Clark, Robert Clark,
William Clark, j. w. Clark and DR..
James Donald, of Paisley; j. w. Hill
lard, Glasgow; ~ b. ChallOner, Kill
marnock; Geo. A. Ballantine and Is.
w. Cummings, New York. The Clarks
are interested in the ownership of the
yacht Thistle. The Mohican will Goa
here and proceed for New York on
Wednesday without waiting to effect
repairs.
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A Plea for a COmrnaa-

CHICAGO, Aug. ga local paper
says: A petition is now in circulation
asking the governor to pardon ex-Com-
missioner McClaughrey. It is being
extensively signed, chiefly by Grand
Army men. The petition asks for fhe
pardon of the old soldier because of his
honorable war record, and also ON the
ground that there was no evidences ms
tifying his conviction. After denO1uc-
ing the evidence produced against Mo
Claughrey as worthless, the DetitiOn
concludes as follows: Your nefition-
ers have no sympathy with coIruntion
or corrupt men in public Office. nor Are
We protesting against popular upris.
ing IN favor OF pure government. we
do protest against indiscriminate con.
domination of all public officers because
some have been untrue to their trusts
We protest against the Injustice of :
verdict which prom unces a brave sol
Ger and good citizen to he a criminal
on evidence which would not Justify ;
verdict against him in a civil case. w,
earnestly implOre your excellency t,
undo the wrong which has placed Won
old comrade in the garb of a felon
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Crop Reports.

TOPEKA, Kas., Aug. 30.-The Kan
sas Farmer this week publishes brief
reports from eighty-seyen special crop
correspondents in as many counties of
the state. The season has been pecu-
liar in several respects, good corn, poor
corn, and a total failure of corn being
found in small areas, some times on
adjoining farms. Hot winds with pc
culiar effects, blew on two particular
days and destroyed the first corn taS-
sells wherever they struck them. The
stalk grew right on, but the tassel was
dead. and of course, there are no corn
ears in such fields. In many places the
rainfall was sufficient to produce a
been raised on the same
grounds in certain other years
with less rain than fell there this year
and there were not bugs enough TO do
much damage. But corn failed there
this year. 1t is the opinion of farmers
in such localities that the trouble lay in
the dryness of the sub soil. Rains
were scattering. Enough rain fell in
the state during the growing season il
it had been well distributed TO produce
average crops, but there were dry spells
in at least three-fourths of the coun-
ties of the state, In some of which,
with the havoc of chinch bugs, corn
amounts to little. 1t appears, however,
that not a single county was so COM
pletely ignored as to deprive it wholly
of farm products. There will be rough
feed in every county sufficient for home
use, and the number that will not
| indeed. Some farmers and some
neighbors will have to purchase corn.
| but they viii not be compelled to GO
outside of their own counties, as rule.
Taking the state over, the total guam
| THY of corn raised will amount to 4l
per cent. of a fair crop for the acres
| planted.
An analysis of the report shows somt
special facts of interest of the eighty
seven counties reporting. Twenty-sil
of them report One-half crop of corr
| and upwards, fourteen report one
| third of a crop, thirteen report one
| fourth. nine report one-tifEh. six report
| tWo-thirds and five three-fourtha
Fifty counties report enough corn TO
| home use, some of them barely enough
some plenty, some a surplus. Fifty
eight counties report stock feed such a
hay. corn fodder, etc. plenty, many o
them more than enough, and all tn
rest feed enough TO carry the hom
stock through the winter if CAREFUL,
saved and judiciously fed. Their
is plenty OF farm produce, etc
of all kinds in the stat
to supply the home demand, but it wi
have to be distributed among thOs
. farmers that have not enough of thei
own raising.
Forty-six counties viii reduce th
wheat acreage below that of last yea
! and eleven counties will increase i
! The other counties viii show about th
same acreage.
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Al BurrIar,s DantI..

NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-Jimmy Nc
Dewitt, a well known burglar, and a
nephew of Jimmy Elliott, the prize
fighter, who was killed by Jerry Dunn
in Chicago few years ago, met with a
violent death this morning. While
trying to escape from store where he
had been discovered he was surprised
by porter, who closed the door on him
and sent for policeman, After a des-
perate struggle to escape McDevitt
plunged through plate glass window.
He was caught in the stomach and dis
embowelled, and when released he was
dead. A companion of the dead burg
lar, who was watching on the outside of
the building was arrested and locked
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County Treasurer GONE.

CLEVELAND, Aug. 31.-A special
from Wapakoneta, Anglaize county,
says: There is great excitement in
this place over the absence of Israel
Lucas, county treasurer. Lucas left
saying he was going to Toledo. His
nephew and deputy was left in charge
of the treasury. The young man ex-
pected his uncle home yesterday, but
when he failed to come the matter was
reported to the county commissioners.
They at once counted the funds in the
treasury and discovered that over
S31 900 was missing. a meeting of the
made. Lucas friends insisist that he
will return all right, and they believe
that the missing money has been de-
posted somewhere.
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DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 26.-EaIIy this
morning at Delray, eight miles west of
here, a fire broke out in the dry kiln of
the Anchor Manufacturing Company.
An alarm was given just as the men
were about to begin work, and the fire
extinguishing apparatus was brought
into Immediate use. The buildings
were filed with shaYings and other
inflammable material used in barrel
making, and the flames spread rapidly.
An extra engine was sent from this
city, but nearly all of the buildings are
save anything. The loss will be from
$3.50, 900 to $500, 900. The business of
the Anchor Manufacturing Company
is that of making one staYe barrel and
kindred cOoperage and leading supplies.
1t is a very extensive establishment
and employs about four hundred hands.
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NATIONAL NEws.
THE REsroRED LANDS.


WASHINGTON, Aug. %, ACTING
Commissioner Stockslager has issued
the necessary instructions to carry into
effect Secretary Lamar'S recent order
restoring to settlement and entry GER
tain railroad indemnity lands as fol-
lows: Southern Pacific Railroad of Cal
fornia, about 1900. GOO acres; Dalles
Military Road, of Oregon, about ,2OO,-
600 acres; Alabama d Chattanooga
Railroad, of Alabama, about $500
acres, covered by unapprOved Selec-
tions; Vicksburg 6 Meridian Railroad,
of Mississippi, about ], 500, 600 acres,
also covered by unapproved selections.
APENsIoN FRAUD IN TROUBLE.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-The pen
sion Office has information that Henry
S. Anderson, of Sexton, Washington
County, Arkansas, has been convicted
in the United States Court for the
Western District of Arkansas, of six
separate offenseS against the pension
laws, namely: Taking illegal fees,
one count; presenting fraudulent papers,
two counts: and forging evidence,
three counts. The special examiner
having the case in charge, reports that
material was at hand for convictions
almost ad infinitum, but as the cOnvic-
lions afford scope for the infection OF
punishment to more than fill the meas
4 ulO III lllC W bdAC O1CA0Cl
1 these were deemed sufficient.
| EXCESSIVE RECEIPTS.
Notwithstanding the large pension
payments this month, amounting tt
$l6, SOC, coo, the receipts for the month
to date are more than 81 500, 900 In ex
cess of the total expenditures for thu
same last year. The receipts hayl
averaged over 81 600 ,O00 a day and nov
amount to S33, S14 ,354.
WILL NOT BE REMOVED.
i 1t is learned at the Department O
State that Consul Burchard of Hondu
raS, whose removal is said TO be desire.
by the Honduras government, was ap
pointed under the Hayes administra
tiOn- The salary of the Office is bu
81 900 per annum, and that the position
is not regarded as desirable is eyi
, denced by the fact that there have bee
: no applications for it since Secretar
, Bayard assumed his present Office. tn
I lreport which Is said to have subjecte
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Kl.Innhv CrnrIfv-

QCHIcAGo. Aug. ga special from
MOnroeyille, Indiana, says: The child
so brutally abused by its step-father,
John Waterside, at Smiley, near here,
died yesterday from the effects of the
cruel treatment it had received and for
which ne is now in jail, and the wife
will be as soon as the officers can fiId
her. The pair took special delight In
manning the child, until finally the
surgeons had to amputate one arm and
limb weeks after it should have had
medical aid, which was furnished by
order of township trustee, who dis
covered by accident the cruel treat
ment it was receiving. For two weeks
after the operation was performed, on
August 10, the mother would tie the
little cripple to bedstead and leave it
there for hours without nursing, al
though the child was screaming with
hunger. The remains of the little one
will be burried-by the township trustee
and unless Waterside has a speedy
trial there is great danger of lynching.
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GOD BLESS OUR PRESIDEN
CSmmander-in-Chief
OF OUR ARMY AND NAVY.

The appearance of the banner Great
ed some feeling among the G.. A. r
| men when it was first placed in posi-
| ton, and this was deepened by an arti-
Gle in the PittSburg Dispatch, which
referred to the fire-eating qualities OF
Editor fancy, and his willingness to
see his entire Office wrecked before he
| would remove the banner.
When the head of the first division,
composed of Pennsylvania veterans,
/ reached the Register Office, post No. Al
which led the advance, went squarely
under the flag. The succeeding posts.
however. crowded into the gutter to
avoid passing under the banner, and
either dropped their colorS or trailed
them along the ground as they went by.
During halt caused by the great
length of the column the actions of
some of the Pittsburg men became
more marked, and curses and epithets
were hurled at the picture.
Meanwhile news of what was going
on was spread far and wide, and soon
the democrats in that portion of the
city began to make their way to the
scene. The street was soon blOckaded
with an excited mass, and things be-
gan to wear a serious aspect. Demo
cratic members of the G.. A. r. began
to tear off their badges and leave the
ranks, while many officers of, the
marching posts hurried to and fro.
urging their men over to the side of
| the street and commanding the flags to
be trailed.
The excitement reached its height
when Encampment No. l of the Union
Veterans Legion of Pittsburg came
up. The crowd had filed all the
breadth of the street for square either
way, leaving but narrow lane along
one curb for the column. The Legion,
| $50 strong, struck bee line down the
center of the street, the officers in front
clearing the way, and as they passed
| under the Cleveland banner with up
right fiagstaffs, many of their members
took off their hats and Saluted.
1t seemed in a moment as If pande-
mOnium had let loose, and while the g.
A. r. men and their friends filed the
air with Misses and groans, the demo
Gratis cheered until they were hoarse,
| while threats of violence were freely
| interchanged. However, the column
| passed on, and all danger of an explo-
sion was over, but during the remain
1 der of the day the excitement was very
/ great, and threats to tear down the
banner were freely made. AT meet
ing of 20 900 people, which immediate
| ~ followed the parade, an attempt was
made to repair the damage which ha6
been done, Governor Foraker of OhiC
saying he honored the sentiment ex
pressed on the banner, and hoped that
all would concur in it, but this expires
sion and others did nothing to allay tht
prevailing excitement.
At O'Clock the Union Veteran LIE
gion marched up Market street, with ;
band of forty pieces at their head, anC
received an ovation. The excitement
ran very high. The G. A. r. posts ar
Missed every time they pass the banner
as they still dodge it.